Ernst Fritz Alfred Partikel

Place: Goldap

Born: 1888

Death: 1945

Biography:

Alfred Partikel was a German painter born in Goldap, East Prussia in 1888. He grew up in Szittkehmen and attended school in Insterburg. Partikel studied at the academy of arts in Königsberg in 1905-07, then moved to Munich and Weimar to study at the Weimar school of arts. He worked in Berlin from 1911 until 1921 and served in the German Army during World War I. In 1921, Partikel moved to Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea. He became a Professor for landscape painting at the Königsberg academy of arts in 1929 and was a guest of the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1930/31. Partikel was a member of Max Pechstein's 'artist's Colony' of Nidden. His works were classified as 'entartete Kunst' in 1937. In February 1945, Partikel fled on bicycle from Königsberg to Ahrenshoop and disappeared while picking mushrooms in the woods near Ahrenshoop on 20 October 1945. His remains were never found. There is a memorial stone dedicated to him in Ahrenshoop, donated by his friend and fellow artist Gerhard Marcks.